“Never has so much been written, that made so little sense, and read by so few, about such an important subject.”

— Big Cajun Man 2014 (with apologies to Sir Winston Churchill)

By my official count this is (around) post number 2505 of my illustrious (ignominious?) writing career. Why the heck have I been doing this for so damn long? I really have no idea, but I am still here about 9 years of doing it (given my son was the reason I started doing this, and he turns 9 years old next month).

What are my favorite posts over the years? That’s a very good question I’ll give you a few that I enjoyed writing and some that hurt but needed writing (remember this site is really more cathartic for me, than it is informational for you):

To help other folks who might not be lucky enough to get all the help I have received over the years.

My dad passed away a few years ago, I still mention him here but I’m an Adult Now is a raw bit of writing I did about his passing (and the fear it instilled in me).

After getting laid off from Nortel in 2008 I wrote a few posts about it but On Being Laid Off is me talking about it publicly for the first time. A year ago, is me looking back after a year of being laid off (I got my new jobs a week after that).

Sometimes I write knowing full well I am poking the bear (figuratively) and I am a Civil Servant really is one of those (I grew tired of the constant jokes about how rich we all are).

At the end of it all my most popular post continues to be A Script for Customer Retention Deals which I only wrote because I had just got a good deal for my wife and I wanted to remember how I did it (next time).

I’d also like to thank my wife (a contributor to this site) and my children for allowing me to use them as examples in my posts and for having the patience of Job, while I string together this string of very odd prose.

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Don’t worry my Random Thoughts will return next week as usual, but I did find a very useful end of year report program from JetPack which tells a lot about my site and what has happened over the past year.

Crunchy numbers

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19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform.

This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2012.

If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.Somehow this comparison doesn’t do it for me, now if you were talking about a Metallica Concert or maybe the Rolling Stones, then I’d be impressed.

In 2012, there were 299 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,795 posts.